Industrial cluster has become a common phenomenon in the regional economic. The research of the industrial cluster has drawn more and more people’s attention in the field of the industrial economics and regional economics research. As a form of industrial organization, it makes extensive contributions for the corporate growth, the process of industrialization and regional economic competitiveness, because it can create considerable economic value and bring a great contribution to the regional economy. With the economic globalization, there are many examples of enterprise cluster all over the world. Such as, the American Silicon Valley, the Japan automobile enterprise cluster, the Italy textile enterprise cluster and so on. As the continuous deepening of the social division of labor, the corporate cluster made of a large number of small and medium enterprises has been the basic characteristic of the regional economy. The industrial cluster as a special form of the enterprise spatial organization shows a very significant advantages in the current economic system. For it can bring the great advantages for the enterprise from the cost of production, marketing and knowledge exchange, ect.. It reduces the integrated cost and improves the company’s ability of innovation. Zhejiang province is a quite typical area of the industrial clusters, be famous for one rural one special industry. After the decades of uninterrupted development of the mold industry in Taizhou Huangyan in the Zhejiang province, it has become the mold industrial cluster with a considerable scale and its own characteristics. Therefore, Huangyan is named as “the home of the mold”.
Through the introduction of the classical theory, I want to analyze the current situation of the development of the china’s mold industry, with the emphasis on the reason of formation of Huangyan mold industry and the eva luation of this industrial competitiveness. Even Huangyan mold industry has a long history, with a certain advantage in the aspects of the scale, production and market, ect.. When compared to the domestic and international advanced level, especially the developed countries’ high technology, there is a big gap among them. The competitiveness of industrial cluster still needs to be enhanced, the overall quality needs to be strengthened, and the industrial level needs to be improved. In the hope of providing some effective references for the local government to improve local industry, as well as providing a better idea for the mold enterprises’ development, this paper gives some measures to improve Huangyan mold industry competitiveness from the existing advantages and problems, and from the government, industry and the enterprises’ own perspectives.
KEYWORDS：industrial cluster, mold, current situation, the ability of the industry competitiveness
